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Windows 7: "windows setup could not configure windows to run on this computer..."

The one thing to know about arrays is that they can be fragile at times. And if one of the drives lets go you get sunk if you don't everything already backed up elsewhere.

Some types of RAID certainly can be fragile, but RAID 1 (Mirrored) is not one of them.

RAID 1: Both of the two mirrored drives are bootable in their own right, and can be used as a stand alone drive if need be (in the case of one of the drives failing). You can continue using the one drive for as long (or short) as you like and then rebuild the RAID 1 when you get hold of a spare drive. I've never had or seen any issue with RAID1.

RAID 0 (striping) is certainly a waste of time. If you lose one drive you lose the lot.

RAID 5 is advertised as having data parity protection across the 3+ drives, but I have had a RAID 5 fall apart on me after one of the drives failed. The system was unstable and corrupted on of the 2 healthly drives during the RAID rebuild and it all went down hill from there. I'm a bit wary of RAID 5 after that experience.

I tried Raid 0 last year while seeing how well a 7 install would do with the RCs. Waste is the word of two drives! You have that one right!

With the new build however I elected to keep each 1tb drive as separate entities while the old case saw the matching pair of 500gb drives having just added in a 1tb drive for storage when a 3rd Green Power 500gb drive was found a bit flaky. That one is now back in a fan cooled usb enclosure having only the Black edition drives installed internally.

They serve as separate drives for expansion as far as main storage on one backup images and other temp storage on the second Sata III model and the option to see those in Raid or adding a 3rd for a spanned volume. As for the pair of OS Sata II drives the second serves as a test vehicle where that can be wiped at any time for the next setup rather then being glued into an array.

You won't see any performance gain with an array. Most now are looking at SSDs for that as well as taking a look at the guide for boosting performance in general. Optimize Windows 7

"windows setup could not configure windows to run on this computer..."

"Preparing to configure windows" Message EVERY time I boot upHi all.
Every time I boot up my computer (Win7 home premium 64-bit), I get the message that says "Preparing to configure windows", right after this, I get the "Configuring windows updates" message where it shows the progress from 0-100% before it loads windows 7. This has been happening all...

Windows Updates & Activation

Stuck on "preparing to configure Windows...", rebooted and all good?I'm not sure if this belongs to here or "Windows update" section but I'll post it anyway.
Basically after disabling/unchecking internet explorer 10 and media features from "turn Windows features on or off", it prompted me to restart the system and ultimately I was stuck on that "preparing to...

General Discussion

Windows 7 stuck at "setup is preparing your computer for first use"I bought a new computer consisting of the following components
motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0
graphics card: Sapphire dual-x R2 270x
CPU: AMD FX 8350
the rest off the components I took from my old PC and should all be okay. (600W power supply, 4GB DDR3 1600 Mhz RAM, 3TB HDD)
The...

Installation & Setup

Reboot loop during "Preparing to configure Windows" - Can't safe modeHello,
I have a Dell XPS M1530 laptop, completely stock with Windows 7 Ultimate x64 installed.
Windows has recently installed some updates and when it rebooted it showed the "Preparing to configure Windows - Do not turn off your computer" Same as this but after about 10-20 seconds it...

BSOD Help and Support

"Windows Cannot Configure to Hardware in Your Computer"Hi there,
I am currently trying to upgrade my - admittedly - old desktop PC from XP to Windows 7 32 Bit Professional Version. I downloaded the image from software4students and burned it to the disc and as far as I can tell this is not the problem.
The setup complete the first four stages,...